India’s gharials are in serious trouble. There are fewer than 200 of these river predators left in the wild. And their deplorable state has remained ignored even by the media, while the tiger hogs the headline -- but the truth is that gharials are 20 times more endangered than tigers.
Minutes of the 8th meeting of the Gujarat Coastal Zone Management Authority held on 04/12/2006 under the chairmanship of Shri P. N. Roy Chowdhury, Principal Secretary, Forests and Environment Department, Government of Gujarat.
Strengthening enforcement and compliance systems has become a subject of particular interest in the context of designing policies that can stimulate sustainable development and economic growth. Recent discussions have shown the need to promote better understanding of the incentive structures facing firms
The objective of the Partnership for Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia (PSUTA) is to work with stakeholders in Asian cities to identify indicators of sustainable transport for use in policy making. It is a response to the extraordinary
This guidelines focus on the BRT environment and assume that interested parties can take advantage of existing guidelines to clarify general issues of access to public space, buildings, and pedestrian infrastructure. The guidelines generally follow the travel path of a passenger using a full-featured Bus Rapid Transit system.
Mine safety in the U.S. has dramatically improved overall since the Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, and fatalities, specifically, have dropped significantly over the past two decades.
Sustainable iron ore mining: a continuous journey is a presentation done by P K Mukherjee, MD, Sesa Goa Ltd, in the Sustainability summit: Asia-2006, New Delhi
In July 2006, Aban Marker Kabraji, IUCN Regional Director for Asia met Mr. Ratan Tata, Chairman of the TATA Sons in Mumbai to discuss various aspects of environment and corporate social responsibility for TATA
These I.As. Are in essence oft shoot of a judgment of this Court in IA 670 of 2001 in Writ Petition (C) 202 of 1995 in K.M. Chinnappa (applicant in T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India and Others (2002 (10) SCC 606). It related to the question whether functioning of Kudremukh Iron and Ore Company Ltd. (in short 'KIOCL') was having adverse effect on the environment and ecosystem.
